Thu, 27 April 2006 Episode 13: Ruby in Practice Ruby has been getting more and more attention by the developer community over the last couple of years. Nevertheless Ruby as language and as a plattform is not too widespread. Most developers don't know people who have actually done commercial Ruby projects. Therefore it is sometimes hard to judge if Ruby is just a hype topic or if Ruby can be used for serious projects today. In this episode Alexander speaks with Thomas Quas about a commercial Ruby project Thomas finished a while ago. Thomas shares his insights and practical experiences with Ruby doing a project under strong time pressure. As Thomas has many years experience doing Java projects we also do some high level comparisons between both platforms. Direct download: seradio-episode13-rubyInPractice.mp3 Category:Episodes -- posted at: 12:00am CEST

Wed, 19 April 2006 Episode 12: Concurrency Pt. 1 This is the first part of a series of Concurrency episodes. In this part Alex and Michael motivate and introduce the topic. We explain fundamental terms, such as thread, process, or mutex and dicuss typical challenges, such as deadlocks and race conditions. Direct download: seradio-episode12-concurrency_pt1.mp3 Category:Episodes -- posted at: 12:00am CEST

Sun, 9 April 2006 Episode 11: Interview Gregor Kiczales In this Episode we have the pleasure of talking with Gregor Kiczales. Gregor is one of the fathers of aspect-oriented programming (AOP). Today he is a professor of computer science at the University of British Columbia. Back in his days at Xerox Parc, he and a number of other people worked on the early forms of AOP as well as on some of its forerunners, such as meta object protocols. In this interview, we talk about a number of interesting topics, such as the history of AOP, the relationship of AO to interceptors, the industry acceptance of AOP, early aspects (i.e. using AO in development phased before implementation) as well as adoption strategies for AOP. Direct download: seradio-episode11-gregorKiczales.mp3 Category:Episodes -- posted at: 12:00am CEST